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0) To test exclusively in stable branches (from 22 to 24)
1) Go to admin -> server -> environment
2) One "2.5 upwards" Moodle version should be available
3) It shows the same requirements than a 2.4 version but with these differences:

0) To test exclusively in stable branches (from 22 to 24)
1) Go to admin -> server -> environment
2) One "2.5 upwards" Moodle version should be available
3) It shows the same requirements than a 2.4 version but with these differences:
a) php 5.3.3 is required (versus 5.3.2 in 2.4).
b) gd extension is required (versus recommended in 2.4).

MDL-35332 - php 5.3.7+ would make (bcypt passwords) more straight forwardMDL-34331 - Making GD a required extension. It is used for thumbnails and graphs at the moment and every now and again bugs popup for people without it.

Dan Poltawski
added a comment - 13/Dec/12 1:41 PM I've added two links to this issue.
MDL-35332 - php 5.3.7+ would make (bcypt passwords) more straight forward
MDL-34331 - Making GD a required extension. It is used for thumbnails and graphs at the moment and every now and again bugs popup for people without it.

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
added a comment - 16/Jan/13 12:18 PM ping we need to decide about this asap!
Note that apparently 5.3.10 is having problems with some zips ( MDL-37429 ) and 5.3.15 seems to have it fixed. Petr says he will try to fix it "harcoding brute workarounds", or something like that, lol.
It's a shame how delayed (and unsafe, unsecure) are official distros with PHP (I know we cannot raise to 5.3.15, grrr).
Consider yourself pinged!

Petr Skoda
added a comment - 21/Jan/13 6:54 AM we should probably bump up PHP requirement to 5.3.3, it seems that all other big projects require this ancient version which is in debian and centos/redhat

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
added a comment - 22/Mar/13 5:51 PM Sending to integration, no matter this is not a security issue we always use to spread them to all supported versions so 22_STABLE branch is included (note that normally we do it way earlier).
Ciao

I've just (now) tried in a Moodle 2.3.6, from "Site Administration > Server > Environment" to "Update component" and it says "Component is up-to-date", but there's nothing about Moodle 2.5 in the component i have...
Should'nt there be something updated on Moodle.org server, to allow every Moodle admins to update component on existing instances (even from older versions) ?